As I was leaving the little state of Kerala recently I had to pass through a brief passport check by two Indian soldiers at the airport's entrance doors. Glancing at my California address in the document, the handsome, male member of the Indian Army smiled at me with a...

CHICAGO, July 3 - The rusting hulk of the former Ryerson Tull steel fabricating plant in South Chicago is a remnant of the days when tens of thousands of workers made this city a world center of steel manufacturing and other heavy industries. Several miles away, a...

Iranian state-run TV aired Wednesday and Thursday ‘confessions’ of two Iranian-American academics arrested in May and held incommunicado since then. Both academics have officially been charged with acting against national security and espionage.

Iranian state-run TV aired Wednesday and Thursday ‘confessions’ of two Iranian-American academics arrested in May and held incommunicado since then. Both academics have officially been charged with acting against national security and espionage.

HAVANA, Mar 6 (IPS) - The governments of Cuba and Venezuela are planning to move forward together on biofuels production, but they will rely on producing alcohol from sugarcane, in order to spare food crops.

Two months ago, the State Department released its 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report (TiP Report), laying out a picture of human trafficking across the globe. In it, the United States reaffirmed its commitment to ending this scourge -- and for the first time, included an evaluation...

We summarize here information concerning cases of repression against Rights Action community development partner organizations. These are two among the endemic climate of repression against community development and indigenous movements in Honduras and the region. We can...

Amnesty International says that concern for the security of trade unionists in Colombia is heightened, after more killings. 100 members of oil workers' union fired for participating in a strike. Reports of arrests, death threats and other forms of...

Divert resources from antiterrorism investigations, mandate burdensome
government paperwork and forbid families from helping -- or even seeing --
their relatives. That's the new U.S. policy toward Cuba.

An official of the Arab League on Thursday accused the United States had adopted Israel's position by backing its claim to keep hold of parts of the West Bank, and the refusal to grant Palestinian refugees the right of return to lands inside Israel.
"We expect the...